The head and the Chief of Minuwangoda, Boragodawatta Sri Sambuddha Jayanti Pirivena, Mehani Aramaya was produced before the Minuwangoda Chief Magistrate Ms T. Thenabandu on charges in connection with the accusations of threatening, assaulting and criminal coercion and showing cruelty on three young monks who were studying and a woman who was in the Meheni monastery anticipation for ordination. Minuwangoda Magistrate Mrs. T. Thenabadu ordered to remand until the 11th. (Sri Lanka Latest News)
Magistrate further ordered that the three girls who left their robes and the woman who was expecting to be ordained should be placed in appropriate custody, the OIC of Minuwangoda Police’s Children and Women’s Bureau Sub Inspector M.K. Ramani produced them before the court yesterday afternoon.
The three girls, aged 12, 15 and 18, and the 32-year-old woman who was expected to be ordained, were presented in the magistrate’s chamber.
It was stated in the court that the four gave statements in front of the magistrate. After that, the court ordered the police to present the three girls and the woman to the forensic medical officer of the Gampaha District General Hospital. The police were further ordered to present the three girls and the woman before the court along with the forensic reports.
Unable to tolerate the torture by the remanded chief Meheni, three young from the Meheni monastery in Boragodawatte took off their robes and pulled on other clothes in the Meheni monastery with a woman who had fled from the Meheni monastery in the early hours of the 24th. It was further stated in the court that the four were then taken into the custody of the Nuwara Eliya Police and handed over to the Minuwangoda Police.
